, 1887-12-20
TOWN TALK.
Cosby Little paragraphs Picked Up
Throughout the City.

Throughout the City.
Der the hills where the cold winds blow,
Through the valleys drifted with snow,
The hunter bold, through force of habit,
Looks for game and bags the ripe Jack rabbit.
The ice crop will soon ripen.
The next session of the supreme court
will be a busy one.
The advance in copper is not due to an
increased demand for ''coppers."
Neil Burgess in a new play is under
lined to appear at the opera house Jan. IA.
Will Welchans and John and Ed Schu-
neman bagged about forty rabbits Sun
day.
A number of Lusk ladies were present
during the sessions of district court yes
terday.
Secretary Shannon yesterday issued
commissions to the board of university
visitors.
The nuptials of Floyd HOLSTER and
Mrs. 1. M. Buckingham will occur this
morning.
The maximum temperature yesterday
was 3l0, the minimum i. Snow fall,
.03 (melted).
Schultz Volker and wife haye sold to
Edward Schubert lots 3, 3 and 4 in block
100 for $75.
A number of Germans and their friends
participated in a german given at Kimme's
lake Saturday night.
They say the devil laughs every time he
hears wedding bells. He must be on a
broad grin nowadays.
A delegation from the reorganized plat
form club takes refuge in the elegant new
waiting room of the Union Pacific.
Nearly all of the Silver Crown people
called here to attend the Agazzie murder
trial have returned to their homes.
The loser ola cuff button at the court
house can recover the missing jewelry by
calling at the office of the clerk of court.
In the absence of water tanks on the
Cheyenne & Burlington Bears containing
supplies of the fluid are attached to each
engine.
The city election occurs Jan. 10. Elec-
tors unable TO exhibit poll tax receipts
dated prior to tomorrow will not be quail
fed voters.
The Denver train was thirty minutes
late last evening, while the west bound
train with which it connects did not arrive
until $3.50 o'clock.
1t is confidently expected that the Cot
tonwood- Douglas stage line, connecting
the latter place and this city, will be in
running order this week.
A well dressed crank who insisted upon
entering several private houses and taking
up a permanent abode! in a number OF
public resorts was jailed last evening.
The engagement of Miss Eva Moore
and Frank Stanley is announced. The
wedding will take place mex month. The
lady and gentleman are among the most
popular of Cheyenue's young people.
The court martial which recently con-
vened at Fort Russell tried and convicted
two p~rivates charged with desertion. On
recommendation of the court both were
pardoned by the department commander.
Several members of the Agazzie jury
are greatly chagrined over the ''bull'
made in consignlng Agazzie to imprison-
ment for life and recommending him to
the mercy of the court at the same time.
Manager Rhodes, of the opera house,
assures THE LEADER that there is every
prospect Of securing the famous Dixey
Adonis company to appear here in the
near future. Negotiations are now pend
ing.
When a Cheyenne son of Hibernia
learned that Imprisonment for life was
tho penalty for the crime committed by
hgazzie he remarked that it was doubtful
If the "Frenchman lived to serve his sem
tenoe."
The ladies of the PRESBYTERIAN church